What I've learned from this: There are no dignified ways of penetrating a pink ring. Just jam the tool in and hope the destruction is kept at a minimum.
I also learned that if you are careless when penetrating you can hurt yourself. I suspect that it may also be possible to slip or miss and hurt someone else with your tool. I imagine that it's relatively safe if you use caution, it probably also helps to get it wet first as well.
@@saintleibowitz8401 oooowwwwyhea ... SONY and or prior Apple would've for sure given a go-ahead for something with this aesthetic/cost/practicality ratio 🔥
I bought 5 of the triangular shaped ones on eBay after your review, Clive. I've discovered they make GREAT work boot deodorizers. I simply turn it on and place it into the boot with the little ion slots facing the toe of the boot. After sitting overnight The boots have literally NO smell! Try it!
If you have problems with stinky work boots, check out my video about it. The effects are dramatic. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wPLwczrGikM.html
I found an 8" plasma ball at a Goodwill thrift store last week for $4.99. It runs on 12V but didn't have the PSU. I wired one up to it. It is strong. When I put my hands near the globe, I can feel a tingle, and smell ozone. So now I lay my cloth mask on it every time I come home, as I don't remember to wash it every day. It is much fresher after even a half hour on the ball.
To carry the conversation from another project of your, there is no doubt in my mind, you are in fact, THE Bob Ross of electronic circuits. So soothing to watch at 4 in the am. ;)
@@soupflood Telling you how to maintain it doesn't suggest this. All point emitters will degrade with time, no matter how pricey the unit. The only criticism of the device is the case, which you can change, all in all a good buy, especially when you consider that the High Voltage module itself cost upwards of £30.
@@andymouse the glued cover of this particular pink device surely doesn't make maintenance easy, but i agree, if one has the skills, one can salvage the ozone module or clean the emitter and change the cover
1:39 _"tell you what tell you what i'm just going to pause and get the correct tool for the job"_ Oh wow, he's going to get the vice of knowledge. Bugger, he returns with a screw driver...
Everything's is pink with Clive he is a big bear if you get my point, looks can be deceiving but I don't care what he does in his personal life but when it comes to electronic tear downs, Clive is the best guy on You Tube
@@who919me my joke was just insinuating I personally wouldn't watch gay porn. I couldn't give a rat's toss bag what anyone else does. Not my business, doesn't affect me in the slightest. And yeah, he's pretty funny and a lot smarter than me.
@@hayreddinbarbarossa661 I think Clive is responsible for half of the entire Pound land stock ending up in pieces... The other half are due to natural causes It's not hoarding... It's collecting special things for nefarious purposes 😉... And I'm not guilty of it... Honest!
The things I learned from this video: - Clive uses pink rings (not surprised by that one) - Corona discharge discharges corona - Always clean the tip and make sure it's not contaminated - Chinese home computers produce radiation - Public sound stations are a thing, for whatever that is
Had the volume on full as i pressed play to hear my pink rink has malfunctioned just as the wife walks in for her to ask what the bloody hell are you watching.
@@aterack833 Or better yet, always use Incognito mode on your browser. It doesn't register the activity in the first place, so no need to delete anything later. Helps you not to stress about it, too. ...um, anyway, that's what I heard. ;-]
For a man who has spent so much time at live musicals and bands, I'm sincerely impressed you can hear that high-pitched whine. You must really look after your hearing, Clive!
You have a nice looking pink ring there, Clive. Ooh no, I can't bear to look, he's prising at his ring with a screwdriver. This isn't going to end well. 😬 That was a feel-good update, nice to know your ring is operating just fine now you've modified it.
When you featured and disassembled the little white O3 generators, I took a leap and bought a pair of 'em. Nice little units that do exactly what they should. THANKS!
Someone did actually build a model aircraft propelled by corona discharge pushing air across the wings, but it was both tricky to handle due to the high voltages and extremely feeble.
Thank you clive. For taking the picture. And then explaining the schematic and describing what each component is for.. I am learning out of it. Regards from Mexico. . stay safe.
2 things sprang into mind watching this. You have several times commented that you must remember to zoom out after having inspected boards and schematics. Unless you are still using a smartphone most cameras have an app where you can mirror the image on the camera in real time, so you can place your phone on the workbench just outside the range of the camera and always see the zoom level. And regarding the airflow in the pink donut, the material leaves ample space for drilling extra holes around the ozone unit for added flow. Simple solution for a lot of units with too little airflow. Nice video - as usual. Thumbs up. A fan in Denmark.
When I saw the device, my first thought was a miniature electrostatic speaker! The HV side was often a problem with Quad speakers (along with comments from the un-initiated, "what are those convection heaters doing wired up to your HiFi" being the commonest! :-D )
Strange design, don't think I have laughed so much in ages after the many innuendoes and hilarious comments, I DID have a mouthful of tea when you said I shouldn't be fingering this now the tea is all over the keyboard and monitor. Great channel, love it, keep up the great videos, BigClive
In the UK, I think people are advised to shoot for about 5 degrees C in the fridge. In the US, we're told to shoot for about 4.44 C OR BELOW, and 2.8 C is not uncommon as a target. Things routinely freeze at the back or the fridge, as many designs pump sub-freezing air from the freezer into the fridge area, and where it has not yet dispersed, it's sub-zero C. Salty foods like pickles do fine back there, but I don't know if a lithium battery would be safe.
A standard ozone generator is so so so so much larger than this. I can't imagine this thing producing enough ozone to even do it's job let alone be harmful to your health.
I had to laugh as you were prying on the mesh donut and said, "this isn't going to end well". I've thought that many times when disassembling things that don't lend themselves to easy disassembly.
Just as you got to the bit (around 16 mins) where you lamented the low voltage going to the ozone generator I thought "it needs to swap the charger chip for one out of a battery bank". These seem cheap as chips, and give out the 5 Volts that the generator craves. Then you go and make that 'product' with a two part solution.
Sounds like an interesting project you have here Clive. Design and 3D print a case for the modded unit that will house the 18650 battery pack and allow better air flow over the ozone generator. Look forward to a future vid if you decide to do it.
A very old analogue photocopier I de-constructed had an interesting feature in the corona discharge wires. They were gold plated to avoid corrosion and maintain the conductivity. So gold plating the pointed tip might prevent future corrosion by the ozone.
First I thought that you have a tiny Electrostatic Speaker. I still remember how good and airy sound was in Quad tube amplifier and Electro Static speakers.
Thank you for inspiring me! I bought a camera on ebay so I could take it to bits because I wondered if I could attach the sensor to a different device.
When inhaled, ozone can damage the lungs. Relatively low amounts can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath and throat irritation. Ozone may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and compromise the ability of the body to fight respiratory infections.
The verb is "dremel". I, too, was going to suggest dremeling holes through the interior walls of the toroid's centre, then a few more holes in the plastic base for the pin. The airflow would have then been center-to-periphery, bottom-to-top. Bridging the exit plate of the generator to the large plate just below the exterior mesh would ensure a 'draw' of air past the point of ionization. You can get some very fine, pretty, tapered holes with a rotary tool, a sewing needle, and the appropriate collet. It's a bit like friction stir welding; the plastic itself does some of the work, eventually, as it becomes semi-molten, in sizing and finishing the hole.
@11.50 they usually disable it during charging because the charger IC cuts off when the current reaches about 10% of its initial value. If the unit is taking more than 10% of the battery charger set point it will get stuck charging forever. Had this problem on a couple of my products!
Clive you got name dropped on an Amazon review about an air purifier, guy said he went searching for one after seeing one of your videos about them... here's the kicker... it was a negative review, he complained that when he turned it on he could smell ozone. That sealed the deal for me and I ordered it because I knew that he was obviously a muppet and that the product was actually what I wanted and not just a box with an LED on it.
The pink ring is performing it's intended task quite perfectly: Separating you from your money! Are you also going to put some air holes in the pink case to help with the flow?
About airflow... The high voltage arc that is created between the tip of the spike and the hole in the metal plate heats the air sufficiently so that when this hot air rises, it generates airflow within the small recess where the emitter is mounted. Air coming in from the sides goes up through the hole. That's the only thing that makes any sense to me on the question of airflow in this unit.
There is a correct tool for removing the mesh, it's just a wire with a hook on the end, they ship them with ceiling speakers for removing the grill before installing
Clive I love your channel. I have a woodworking lathe that I can vary the speed on by moving a belt between pulleys. I want to try to simplify this by putting it on the fastest combination of pulleys and then use some sort of speed regulator to vary the speed. I bought an "AC motor speed controller" on Ebay for the princely sum of about £7 but to my astonishment, it doesn't work! When I told the vendor he refunded my money on the condition that I didn't tell anyone... (Happy to send it to you if you want.) The lathe has a single phase induction motor (both Greek to me). Is it possible to do what I want to do? The motor was made in 1993 so not state of the art.
A standard induction motor will lose torque rapidly with any attempt at speed control. The belts are the best option, followed by a variable frequency drive and matching motor.
Clive. Thanks for showing us your pink ring, at least it was clean. A quick 2 questions if you have the time. What are the name of the connecters that plug the battery to the circuit board? And I have a RC car light kit, the 2 LEDs for the indicaters in parallel, the resistor is on the circuit board. If I remove 1 LED do I need to replace it with a resistor? Thanks Clive 👍😷
You probably could hack in one of those cheap 5V PFM always-on step-up converters (for Li-Ion to USB) in between the control board and the ozone module in this situation.
The fridge idea got me, but i fear it would kill the living baking-yeast i keep in my fridge. Have you encountered food-related products which don't like the ozone?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel if they had mounted the spike assembly properly, they could have fit a second one on the other side of the ring. Could you run both on the same supply, or would you need to fit a second supply in the ring?
Does putting ozone in the fridge risk damage to the plastic door seals. I know that some plastics disintegrate when exposed to ozone. There are some refrigerators on the market that have a built in ozone generator, but I assume the manufactures select plastic that is resistant to damage.
